Re:Creators Episode 17: Plans everywhere

Published on August 13, 2017

Whew...we finally got an episode. This week's episode seems to answer the question I've been asking since the Chamber Festival plan was created. Why would Altair even play along with this plan? Based on the episode, I guess the answer is that she expected it to happen and already planned to defeat them anyway.

There are a lot of good moments in this episode, so I want to take a second to address the action first. For the most part, I thought the abilities displayed in the episode looked pretty cool, but I thought the fighting itself was lacking. Alicetaria pretty much played cat and mouse with Rui and Selesia was constantly slashing and shooting at a shield of swords. That being said, the scene where Alicetaria uses her lightning to stop Rui's blasts was pretty awesome.

I really don't have much to say about the Mirokuji fight. I still think it's not an interesting fight to have in a show that pits different genres against each other. If you compare the face-off to the fight between Alicetaria and Rui, they're just completely different in terms of atmosphere. Though, I will say that the "attacking through glass" thing was cool.

Alicetaria is probably my favorite surprise from this episode. We already saw part of her planning, but I wasn't expecting her to fight alongside Altair while putting it into action. She looks like she's building up to a big betrayal moment, which I look forward to seeing. But even aside from that, this episode had Alicetaria looking much more expressive and dynamic as a character, as opposed to her previous self.

And then, of course, I want to talk about the big Blitz Talker scene in this episode. While there's some pretty standard stuff about brushing off the efforts of the successful in that scene, I liked that Suruga was straight about her motivations, without any of the fluffier speech that the other authors (and Sota) used. She knows what she wants to accomplish and she's truly aware that she's the god of Blitz's world.

I'm also not too confused about the fact that Suruga revived Blitz's daughter. I've interacted with enough people to know that fans have no problem with the idea of bringing a dead character back to life in anime, so it's not like it would be hard to get fan acceptance.